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flowerytale · 9 months

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Kate Chopin, from The Awakening

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lets-get-lit · 2 months

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The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.

- Kate Chopin, The Awakening

#quotes #books #literature #lit #classics #academia #light academia #dark academia #chaotic academia #book #book quotes #quotation #Kate Chopin #The Awakening #Feminism #Fiction #Historical Fiction

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macrolit · 6 months

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The Awakening Kate Chopin FYI - this is 1 of 12 vintage paperback classics that comprise our current giveaw@y.

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have-you-read-this-short-fiction · 4 months

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#novella #novellas #the awakening #kate chopin #19th century literature #turn of the century literature #american literature #english language literature #have you read this short fiction?#book polls #completed polls #ik i usually don't put 2 photos but the right photo is the cover i read this book with #and i really wanted to use it #but the picture was very small and formatted differently than i wanted #so i thought i'd add another photo with it

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bookloure · 8 months

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I read "The Awakening" alongside the delicious and flamboyant "Orlando" by Virginia Woolf for the Game Of Tomes book club. Surprisingly, I found it no less resolute than Orlando. This book has a quiet resolve that I found rather profound. This thread of thoughts will have spoilers, so here's your chance to save your eyes!

In the book club's discussion, Carolyn said she found this book a bit lackluster and wondered why Kate Chopin's writing career ended with "The Awakening." But I think I can understand why. It's not the adultery that makes this novel shocking; it's the idea that love for one's children is not the greatest love a mother can experience, but the incorrigible love of one's Self. And even by today's standard, that take is still radical.

I remember a plot in one of my all-time favorite books, The Dutch House by Ann Patchett. In that novel, the protagonist brother and sister fell into poverty because their mother left them. We follow the brother and sister as they go through hardship after hardship with the arrival of their stepmother, a la Cinderella.

Later in the novel, we learn that their mother left to care for poor families in India. She found a cause greater than herself, greater than her kids, and followed it. Lots of people who read the novel hate the mom, Goodreads reviews will tell us. And understandably so. After all, what kind of mother will leave her children in poverty to then give her life serving other children?

But fathers leave their children for "great" causes—to go to war, for example—and society doesn't bat an eye.

This is a roundabout way of saying that this novel is not about the adultery itself. Instead, it's sympathetic towards a mother who loves herself more than her children. A mother who feels, deep in her core, that to "think about the children" is a betrayal of the Self. And finding herself unable to cope with the pressures and expectations of society, she kills herself instead. That's selfish. And that's radical.

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aniaks · 5 months

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The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.

Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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whosafraidofvirginiawoolf · 1 year

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Why, she reflected, should there be this perpetual disparity between the thought and the action, between the life of solitude and the life of society, this astonishing precipice on one side of which the soul was active and in broad daylight, on the other side of which it was contemplative and dark as night?

— Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

Even as a child she had lived her own small life all within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life—that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

— The Awakening by Kate Chopin

#virginia woolf #night and day #the awakening #kate chopin #literature #quotes #quote #*mine: parallels

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edwardian-girl-next-door · 11 months

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"The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in the abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation."

art: Frank Weston Benson, "Summer Day" (1911)

quote: Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1901)

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prokaryotics · 2 years

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“Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies; good night, good night. Follow her close; give her good watch, I pray you.”

“the tradition of the drowning woman in the background of ‘anna karenina’" - sydney schultze // the awakening - kate chopin // hamlet act IV scene VII - shakespeare // “ophelia” - friedrich wilhelm theodor heyser // “utonulá” - jakub schikaneder // the awakening - kate chopin // “la jeune martyre” - paul de la roche // “found drowned” - george frederic watts // david copperfield - charles dickens // the bridge of sighs - thomas hood // “past and present no.3” - augustus leopold egg

#words #web weaving #ophelia #the awakening #kate chopin #comparatives #mine.#quotes #poetry #prose #art #books #william shakespeare #drowning woman #charles dickens #shakespeare #parallels

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vulpinesaint · 5 months

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it's me and all the women in literature described in despondent unhappiness in a marriage that they don't hate but don't enjoy as they should and who feel as if they're not the way a woman should be and who yearn to be free of their husband and children not because they despise them but because they're not for a husband and children and who can't say that they're miserable but who feel a numb kind of despair in all that disconnectedness and disconnectedness and disconnectedness. they are just like me for real

#we have the same kind of depression 👍 but also. i can see so clearly that that's the way i would be if i still thought i was a girl.#and i had grown up to get married to someone and tried to be a woman and a mother like that. god...#edna pontellier hold on. i'm going out into the sea with you. we'll drown together.#laura brown from the hours on my kin list 👍#need to reread the hours so bad. opened up my copy of it to check if laura had killed herself at the end or not for this post #and just skimming the last few chapters made me tear up. god. but there are still the hours aren't there? one and then another...#and then you get through that one and then my god there's another...#um. books that make you go 'okay so maybe i have wanted to kill myself a little bit all these years. but maybe i'm going to be okay'#the book ever honestly it is Everything to me #and kate chopin's the awakening is good as well. much to be said about the depiction of people of color in that novel #but the depiction of edna pontellier's mental state is so. ough.#glances at the ratings on goodreads nd stuff have made me so irritated.#god forbid a woman commit the ultimate selfish sin of leaving her children behind because she's so miserable by killing herself.#because far worse than the thought that she could be losing all her personhood moment by moment #and wasting her life away feeling like a shell of a person #pales. in comparison to the thought that she could POSSIBLY abandon the children she didn't really want to have.#of course it's a bad situation for the kids. sorry to raoul and etienne. but they will survive.#condemning the main character for having the audacity to go off and die... sickening. i hate people #valentine notes

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fiannalover · 5 months

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When his hair is brown and grows away from his temples, when he opens and shuts his eyes, and his nose is a little out of drawing, he has two lips and a square chin, and a little finger which he can't straighten from having played